Kind sir, could you explain to me what the word "yawpish" means? So that I might understand what is so special about the word"wOOt-woot"? ( Except that it is an exclamation of happiness, which might be special enough. )

There's a verb, to yawp 'to cry, bark', which is a variant of to yelp. As with many verbs, this, too, has been nominalized (nouned if you'd rather). From there, it is a short hop-skip to adjectival derivation by use of the suffix -ish. That's all conjecture, and tsuwm has suggested elsewhere that it might mean 'noisy, clamorous'.

There's a verb, to yawp 'to cry, bark', which is a variant of to yelp. As with many verbs, this, too, has been nominalized (nouned if you'd rather). From there, it is a short hop-skip to adjectival derivation by use of the suffix -ish. That's all conjecture, and tsuwm has suggested elsewhere that it might mean 'noisy, clamorous'.

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me--he complains of my gab and my loitering.I too am not a bit tamed--I too am untranslatable;I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

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